Contains: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Mother Savage / Guy de Maupassant -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- An upheaval / Anton Chekhov -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Eveline / James Joyce -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Sweat 142 / Zora Neale Hurston -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Livvie / Eudora Welty -- Reunion / John Cheever -- The guest / Albert Camus -- A party down at the square / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- Vandals / Alice Munro -- A & P / John Updike -- A small, good thing / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Died and gone to Vegas / Tim Gautreaux -- Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- The red convertible / Louise Erdrich -- How to talk to your mother (notes) / Lorrie Moore.